Wednesday was International Press Freedom Day, and the Biden administration celebrated by pretending to care about press freedom while keeping the most important journalist of his generation imprisoned for reporting that embarrassed the United States government. Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK celebrated by confronting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Washington Post imperialism cheerleader David Ignatius on stage about their duplicity over Assange.
Democracy Now! As a two-day BRICS summit gets underway in South Africa, we speak with author and analyst Vijay Prashad about whether the bloc — which comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — can meaningfully challenge U.S. and Western domination in world affairs by building an alternative forum for countries of the Global South. BRICS countries represent 40% of the world's population and a quarter of the world's economy, and the group is now considering a possible expansion to more than 20 other countries. " BRICS is an instrument to push forward their political views, which they feel are not taken seriously, " says Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Prashad explains the history of BRICS and its New Development Bank and responds to criticism that BRICS falsely portrays itself as an anti-imperialist project. The BRICS countries " are not a socialist bloc, " says Prashad, but they " don't want to
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